Fricken #BellCanada and #Rogers #anticompetition #internet in #Canada. Step up #CRTC.

I just went to set up #TekSavvy for my new apartment and apparently the #FiberOptic line going into the building is blocked for #IndepententServiceProviders. I've been with TekSavvy for probably close to 20 years (National Capital Freenet before that).

Especially ridiculous that they can do this going into an #AffordableHousing building and charge tenants whatever ridiculous inflated rates they want.

My #TekSavvy cable internet is out. Is it just me?

I'm still a little annoyed by #TekSavvy's positioning in order to be bought out in the coming months, if only because I can predict what will happen:

Bell will come in with a good faith offer to purchase TekSavvy (one of the last big third-party internet providers!!) for pennies on the dollar, and then they will immediately carve up the customer base. DSL/Fiber customers to Bell, and Cable customers to Rogers/Cogeco.

Blech....

Tech (Global News): CRTC sticking with current wholesale internet rate approach with slight changes https://globalnews.ca/news/9818526/crtc-wholesale-internet-prices/ #globalnews #TechNews #Technology #CanadianRadio-TelevisionandTelecommunicationsCommission #wholesaleinternet #internetcosts #Internet #TekSavvy #Canada #Tech #CRTC

I am very saddened by this news. #TekSavvy was one of the last independent providers of internet (with fiber offerings in Chatham area) and resellers of DSL/Cable, and fought the good fight in trying (a futile effort, as it turns out) to lower prices for customers.

After this, we will be left with the triopoly of telecom providers (#Bell/#Rogers/#Telus) in a market where we already pay the highest connectivity prices IN THE WORLD.

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33695847-Independent-internet-provider-TekSavvy-puts-itself-up-for-sale-amid

Okay, I'm no corporate #shill but if you're in the market for internet and want to give #TekSavvy a try, their summer sale is on now! I just signed up for 120Mbits service for just under $70/mo all-in.

Am currently using Start.ca, paying the same for half the speed.

I like TekSavvy because they fight the good fight against incumbent telecom providers who have a near-stranglehold monopoly on the market. Recently, Start also got bought out by Telus.

🇨🇦 #Telecom news roundup: price hikes & possible strike!
Bell & Telus customers will soon pay more for roaming services.
https://mobilesyrup.com/2023/03/05/telecom-news-roundup-price-hikes-and-a-possible-strike/

#Netflix has changed its password-sharing rules in Canada. Now, the move is having an impact on #Telus Stream+ bundle.

#TekSavvy accused #Rogers of offering #Vidéotron wholesale services

In what seems to be a never-ending battle between #Bell and Vidéotron, the two companies are now feuding over costs related to 911 services.

via #MobileSyrup

cool #TekSavvy is apparently discontinuing 75 so we're getting 100. For now that's perfectly fine with me.

Opinion: The new ‘deadline’ for the Rogers-Shaw deal is as bogus as the last one - The Globe and Mail https://bit.ly/3RpkpOd #RogesShawMerger #CompetitionTribunal #CRTC #Teksavvy #CompetitionBureau #Rogers #Shaw #CAnadianCourts #CanadianParliament #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

@ironiciconic I can't say enough good things about #teksavvy either. They really do fight the good fight. If you're on the west coast, forget #Shaw and do yourself a favor and get TekSavvy.

TekSavvy asks CRTC to review Rogers deal to sell Freedom to Videotron | CP24 https://bit.ly/3HeEP9m #TekSavvy #CRTC #Rogers #Shaw #Videotron #Quebecor #FreedomMobile #RogersShawMerger #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

#OddlySpecific

Do any 🇨🇦 ppl here use #TekSavvy as their #ISP, specifically w/ Rogers providing the physical #LastMile? I'm stuck with cable for my 'last mile' but would like to change.

1. If problem is wire between deployment point on pole (in my case) to demarcation on house, who do you report it to? Imagine Rogers service would be even more futile than when an actual customer.
2. Same question if the problem is further up the line on the last mile....

Thanks!
Please boost for reach.

The government proposed a draft Policy Direction earlier this year. It was sort of a consolation prize, announced at the same time the government rejected competitors' appeals of a CRTC decision that is absolutely destroying competition as we speak.

My kneejerk reaction to the Policy Direction is here on the bird app: https://twitter.com/kaplanmyrth/status/1531381226421903360

#TekSavvy made some submissions on the draft Policy Direction, covered on our blog: https://blogs.teksavvy.com/governments-telecom-policy-direction-is-empty-without-concrete-goals

#CTRS #telecom

To be clear, if it were up to them, those large, dominant incumbents would not sell the access services at all, and companies like #TekSavvy would not exist.

#CTRS #Telecom

Without some regulatory intervention, most residences would only have two options for Internet: one phone company and one cable company. Think Bell and Rogers in Toronto, or TELUS and Shaw in Calgary.

So the #CRTC requires those large incumbents to sell access to certain parts of their networks to competitors. That's how companies like #TekSavvy and others get access to their wires to offer competitive services: the incumbents are required to offer them, at regulated rates.

#CTRS #Telecom

@emacsen Makes me want to switch to #TekSavvy as an #ISP .

RT @TekSavvyBuzz@twitter.com

In 2019 #TekSavvy was ordered to block access to websites that provide access to copyrighted content without permission. TekSavvy is the only ISP asking to have that order struck down at the Federal Court of Appeal.

Our new #ChoiceWords blog: https://blogs.teksavvy.com/the-goldtv-case-why-is-teksavvy-defending-piracy

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TekSavvyBuzz/status/1374433346067996672

📬Kanada: erste Sperrverfügung gegen illegalen IPTV-Anbieter GoldTV📬 https://tarnkappe.info/kanada-erste-sperrverfuegung-gegen-illegalen-iptv-anbieter-goldtv/ #OpenMediaOrganisation #Eastlink #TekSavvy #Artikel #Cogeco #GoldTV #Rogers #Bell